One thing at a time

When it comes to spiritual growth, or learning a genre, take one thing at a time. When we try to be all, do all, experience all, we usually end up overwhelmed. This can happen in life in general, but spiritual practice is something that usually demands that we slow down.

It is hard to rush through things from prayer, meditation, and ritual to making the altar just right, making regalia, developing skills, and learning important things word by word. We cannot rush through, and if we try , we just make a mess. We learn half way, wrong way, and nothing really ever gets done.

Take one thing at a time. Don't try to take a psychic development class and learn to be a medium at the same time, they require similar but different skills and connections. Make sure you decide what aspect is really important to you in any genre before entering it. Focus on that aspect, give it 100% and then move forward on it. Once that is accomplished, reach higher. Strive for more and always learn. It never hurt to re-learn things either. Sometimes just going through life gives you a different perspective on things. It makes you see what the lesson really meant, and that your perception at the time was a little off. Life experience has blown open more of the doorways and we understand not only more deeply, but with a new set of eyes.

The other aspect of this is to honor what you learn. Don't be a class junkie, but learn because you have an interest; it will increase your business; it will make you more valuable in the job arena; it will help you understand more about a genre you are interested in.

People tend to have a "gung ho" approach sometimes that ends up making it harder for them to learn and to appreciate what they are learning. Sometimes you just need to process things.When you zoom past step one without really understanding it, you may misinterpret and incorrectly learn steps two through ten. Then where are you? As the saying goes, you are back to square one. My reiki teacher makes the learning process months long to reiki master. I think you need the time and experience to become a true reiki master, and you can't do it in a weekend.

There are others who love the NA way, but can't decide how they are going to participate in that (and that requires a ton of learning to really KNOW it and understand it). All genres require concentration, respect, and time to really be taken on properly.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was a reiki master, championship pow wow dancer, or trance medium.

Take your time and truly learn something, learn it the RIGHT way, and research to make sure that you are learning the correct process, or the one that works best for you. Do it becasue you are called to it, not because your friends are all doing it.

Make yourself a valuable tool for the Universe to use to make its' magic, not a person who runs around teaching the wrong thing and misleading others. Most of all, don't mislead yourself. Take your time and do it right.

Do the right things for the right reasons.
Learn , research and grow.


Peshaui Wequashimese


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